ART RESEARCH
CENTER
Also:
A.R.C. , Art Research Center Group./A.R.C. Group Not-for-Profit Structural Artists Organization: State Chartered, 1969; Federally Tax Exempt 501-C3 Educational and Charitable Organization, 1970. Subsidiary Activities: D.C.C. - Designers Collaborative Consortium N.C.P. - New Circle Publications I.S.A. - The International Institute For Modern Structural Art and New Structures Gallery Evolved from New Center U.S. Art, cooperative artists gallery. K.C. Mo- 1963-64; Interdisciplinary Discussion Group, K.C. Ks-K.C. Mo 1964-66. Officially began with 1st Exhibition, K.C. Mo- October, 1966 - February 1967. [Greatly inspired by laboratory-like "Institute of light" suggested by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at close of his last book Vision in Motion, 1944-45.] Art Research Center A.R.C. Group both historically and contemporaneously always a core of A.R.C. cadre/collective of 3-18 individual members and/or associates: artists, theoreticians, writers, composers, musicians, performers, designers, architects, scientists, technicians, et al. . .or combinations therefrom; who were/are directed toward particular experiments, perceptual and educational events/exhibitions/performances/presentations demonstrative of structural and abstract creative principles/models/exemplars; producing aesthetic objects/events for individual/public participation. |
ARC Annex Space Front on 48th Troost , Circa Summer 1977, Telic 1
Photographs by Stephen Black
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Original A.R.C. Group-1st Exhibition Members: Michael Stephens, Constructive Artist/Designer/Lecturer Nancy A. Stephens, Artist/Designer Jon B. Thogmartin, Architect/Artist Norton Nelkin, Wittgensteinian Philosopher/Theoretician (d. 1986) Gary Rice, Theoretician/Computer Programmer (d. 1975) Philip J. VanVoorst, Artist, Graphic Designer John Abbick, Artist/Conceptual Modeler (d. 2011) Harold Chase, Systematic Artist A.R.C's initial guest exhibition was by Chicago's Architect/ Structurist Artist Laurence Booth-1967; Next guest exhibitions were by Toronto Luminal Artist Ziigniew Blazeje and Stanley Tigerman, Chicago Architect/Artist First Retrospective both in 1968. Examples; Exhibitions, Presentations and Lectures/Symposia also include: A.R.C. 3rd Exhibition and Symposia on Art Science and Technology, Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology K.C. MO, 1967; A.R.C. #4 magazine & 4th Exhibition at Anonima Studio, NYC 1968 Series of Experimental Exhibitions; 1) Experiments with Module and Manipulation 1968 2) Experiments with Reflection and Refraction 1972 3) Experiments with Light and Color 1978 4) Experiments with Threshold of Perception/LIMEN 1981 Construction/Lecture/Performance of A. Weininger's theater The Mechanical Revue 1972-1973 Series of New Music Concerts 1977-1989 Series of Film and Abstract Animation presentations 1979 Experimental Theatre Events 1971-1986 Alternative Educational and Lecture Series 1976-1986 |
Telic 77 Poster |
MATRIX International Exhibition/
Performance events 1972-1973 A.R.C.’s Space Net National AIA ‘City and Celebration’: 2,500 balloons 10 acres Volker Park 50’h. 4 days, programmed lights; sound transducers in trees; final night: 12 dancers e/w/2-3’ sparklers dancing 300 yds KCMO 1979. International TELIC I, II, III 1977-1986 Series of Process Exhibitions 1975-1995 SONOLUMINAL Concert /Performance, Interrelation of Light & Sound: I 1995, II 1996 Related to A.R.C. New Mexico Street News/MickeyratComix Peter Clapp "Aspects of Popular Culture" Column by T.M. Stephens, Syndicated Alternative Papers MIDWEST MODERN Aesthetic Essays Column T.M. Stephens, Syndicated Alternative Papers Cercle e Carre Magazine and Gallery Clay Bodenhamer, Editor/Publisher/Director GEOM Alliance Liz & Don Willmont, John Harrison, et al.. Harrison Street Review Writer and Co-Editor Larry Alton (also editor MATRIX)
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Glass Photogram 1977, Thomas M. Stephens |
Additional A,R.C.
Members/Associates/Interns and Advisors since 1967
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R. Travaglione
Contact Sheet |
Steve Paul
Associate 1977-1981 Journalist, Writer John Baird Photographer, Luminal Artist (d. 2006) Kathryn Howard Writer, Photographer Sue Scott Associate Curator Yvonne Ellsworth Photographer, Co-Curator Ralph Feik Systematic, Artist, Designer Jamie Yates Associate San Francisco, Poet, Art Assistant Thomas North Photographer, Engineer Eleanor Feik Associate Curator, Art Assistant 1983-1996 Michael Corbett Associate Pianist, Composer Clay Bodenhamer Structural Artist, Editor, Gallery Director Robert McConchie Associate Multi-Media Technician Richard Murphy Associate Physicist, Educator Ron Roberts Associate Composer, Basis Musician 1989-1997 Clifford Singer Associate Painter, Mathematician, Educator 1992 Steven Collins Structural Artist Dennis Sander Associate Architect, Educator Dwight Frizell Intern Media Artist Jay Mandeville Intern, Poet, Editor/Publisher Michael Zagalik Associate Photographer Bobby Scroggins Associate, Artist Caleb Roy Intern 2007-2010 Historian, Media Technician Jeremy Eckhardt Associate Musician, Pyro-technician, Serigrapher 2012 Luke Alexander Associate Media Technician 2012 Megumi Yorozu Associate Cultural Communications Representative Japan ADVISORS Andreas Weininger Originally Hungarian Bauhauser 1923-1927; New York 1968 (d. 1986) David Barr Associate Detroit, Structuralist Artist, Educator Herbert W. Franke Auf Munchen,Writer/Theoretician, Computer Artist, Photographer Howard Jones New Orleans, Printmaker, Educator Max Mahlmann Hamburg, Structuralist Artist/Theoretician |
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Front Lawn
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Gudrun Piper
Hamburg, Structuralist Artist Waldo Balart Madrid, Systematic Structuralist Artist/Theoretician Robert Colomb Sydney, Cyberneticist Manfred Mohr New York/Paris, Systematic/Computer Artist Virgil Salvanu Cluj, Constructive Artist, Educator, Diplomat Donald Willmott Owen Sound, Ontario, Sociologist/Ecologist Dale Eldred Luminal Artist, Educator (d. 1993) Laurence Booth Chicago, Architect, Structuralist Artist Duane Benton Architect/Designer Entrepreneur, Inventor Samella Gates Public Administrator, Community Organizer Charles Wheeler Pathologist/ Entrepreneur, Civic Leader John Evans Pharmacist, Bibliophile, 2010 Board Chair 2012
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Examples of ARC Group
Peripatetic Activity: 3 A.R.C. Artists at with works of 9, NT4 Zagreb 1969; 2 A.R.C. Artists with works of 7 artists Toronto/Montreal 1967; Buffalo, Boston, NYC 1967; 4 A.R.C. Artists with works of 8 during Buffalo's + X -(Organized Conference on Group Activity) 1968; 2 A.R.C. Artists with works of 14 at NT5&BIT International Zagreb 1973; Art Research Center Group at ArtTransition, CAVS, MIT with event Kressge Mall & Coordinator on presentation panel 1976: 2 A.R.C. Artists with works of 8 at International Conference and Exhibition of Geometric and Structural Art, Madrid 1989; 3 A.R.C. Artists with works of 6 at BRIDGES & ART/MATH Winfield Ks & Berkley & Vallejo 1998; & recent conferences/meetings (ie ReConstruct/GEOM Owen Sound Ontario 1996; Lake Ozark MO 2008) & Kansas City KS & Kansas City MO 2011-12. A.R.C. Group is currently exhibiting at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Center for Art and Media as participants in the New Tendencies and BIT International Exhibitions and Publications, since 2008-12. A.R.C. Group has been recently cited as 'pioneering' for "Artist's Spaces" by the Kansas City MO Charlotte Street Foundation involved in FRONTIER with graphics and interviews; in preparation for upcoming lecture and exhibition. Preparing small exhibitions for the AIA, a proposal for the Gordon Parks Foundation and a major Retrospective Exhibition; including historic and new works. by original 2nd, even 3rd, generation members, associates, advisors and friends 2013-2016
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View of ARC doorway from inside. 1977
Telic chalk sign outside, Lady, a
Basenji dog in doorway,
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ARC New Music Poster
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T.M.Stephens, Unknown Visiting Artist in ARC, Telic 77 Annex Gallery 1977, R. Travaglione Contact Sheet |
T.M.Stephens in ARC Telic 77 gallery with art/musical instruments piece, Artist Unknown Photographs by Stephen Black
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Unknown Artist with helmet,
Unknown artist, Dorothy Moss, T.M. Stephens,
(in Back) Stephen Black, Unknown in ARC Telic 77 Annex Gallery 1977
R. Travaglione Contact Sheet
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Dorothy Moss, T.M.Stephens, Stephen Black in ARC Telic 77 Annex Gallery 1977, With Interactive Glass/ Light Sculpture, Artist Unknown
R. Travaglione Contact
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www.artresearchcenter.com or vivaarc@yahoo.com
Photos and Posters from the collection of Stephen Black.